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by jfkebwjsbx 2192 days ago
> much harder to do it

What is harder? It is a single command to install most dependencies.

Using a C dependency is super easy from most languages, including C itself, of course.

> binary size and compile times are smaller at the expense of actual time spent writing code.

Nobody writing C professionally is doing that for those reasons unless the library is trivial.